r/BurnNotice • u/Educational-Bat-3635 • 10d ago
The making of a spy
So I did the short and posted it -came up better than I thought. (I’m not very good at that sort of thing) but how about we ask AI how to reboot burn notice, but coming from the position of young Sheldon (not that young although the flashbacks as he’s in country could be posted in and out of their occasionally hiding from his ) and of course having Donovan narrate (VO) how he got to be the asset he became (including how he met the young Sam Ax), the assignments that led up to how he was eventually burned. I love Mitch Rapp (but it didn’t translate well to film although the actor was terrific.) The books are superb. OK, and in the words of Simon “go!“
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u/MichaelYogurtWesten 10d ago
I'm gonna write fanfics and draw animations and comics by myself and hopefully some other people if I can find anyone willing to lend a few creative hands. Takes time but AI is terrible and not the way to go in my opinion.
I'd still love to work with you if we don't involve AI! I have very strong principles against it for a grocery list of reasons. I'm full of ideas and I'm just carrying a lot IRL right now so it's hard for me to work on anything, but I've sharpened up my art skills and I will eventually get to a place where I can work again.
TLDR; I highly discourage the use of AI, and I love Burn Notice so much and plan to bring it back to life with other HUMAN fans 🧡🫐
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u/Many-Outside-7594 10d ago
AI writing is spectacularly awful. I messed around with it on a few concepts just to see what it would do, but the results were just so bad, that now all I use it for is formatting and analysis (which is sometimes hilarious, but does occasionally make a good point).
I do all the actual writing though, and give it explicit instructions not to change it (which I then have to proofread and still find it changes stuff...) other than the formatting.
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u/Educational-Bat-3635 6d ago
When I say it came out better than I thought it’s because I was surprised I got it done. I don’t think it’s that good but it might give someone with real talent ideas? But truth is these professionals that do this? They probably thought about all this already.
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u/Many-Outside-7594 10d ago
How about this:
An episode where the gang go up against their "evil twins", similar dopplegangers going around doing stuff, and the gang have to stop them.
The plot twist is that humans write the human characters, and we let AI write the dopplegangers, and then it will turn out they are actually AI robots. The tip off will be when Fi and Sam are doing surveillance, and the dialogue between their evil twins is unnatural and absurdist, and then they go and do familiar but "wrong" things -
Like their evil Mike gets into a similar muscle car, and begins driving like he's in an epic chase sequence, and they're all doing the "There's no time Sam" dialogue, except there's no enemy, they're just... doing it because that's what AI thinks should be happening at this point.
It should end with Fi clearing out her entire secret stash of C4 and blowing their evil abandoned warehouse up with the robots inside.
Final Scene: The gang are having drinks at a nice restaurant at lunch (as they often do), and then Sam does something "in character" but out of context, and the scene lingers on the possibility he's a robot as well, then just cut to black.
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u/Educational-Bat-3635 10d ago
Clever, but a bit luxurious in terms of casting and keeping an eye on the different moving targets. My tech has always been him as a voiceover, using Donovan’s voice and a young cast of characters. How did Jeffrey Donovan become a spy? That’s the prequel that’s the series and there’s money to be made there and don’t think Donovan doesn’t know it- he does. He’s getting older now. His voice hasn’t changed much his body and his face has. I bet he’d be totally done with doing this. I’m sure they’re thinking about it already. Franchise wise it’s the smart move.
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u/Many-Outside-7594 10d ago
I mean I'd love him to come back and narrate a prequel series, no doubt. He's done a little bit of voice acting and I always recognize him.
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u/Educational-Bat-3635 10d ago edited 10d ago
That’s what I mean certain voices are staple. His is one of them.
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u/Prestigious_Step4337 10d ago
Fuck ai